Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity following nationwide power cuts that have inflicted misery on millions of people and ignited protests, including one near the presidential palace in Caracas.

"We have small children and we aren't able to give them a drop of water to drink", said Caracas resident Maria Rodriguez.

"We're confronting monsters who want to destroy Venezuela", Maduro said, blaming the electricity crisis on "sabotage" the United States and the opposition.

The opposition party claimed that the government put little investment into Venezuela's national grid and continuously failed to fix it. Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez said that while the network is being repaired, employees in the private and public sectors would end work at 2 p.m. EST Monday and students would get another day off from school.

Footage also circulated on social media that appeared to show paramilitaries and police special forces searching a housing estate for protesters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela's fourth largest city.

They also sparked protests, reinforced by calls to people to take to the streets by National Assembly president and opposition leader Juan Guaido.

"To achieve consistency in the provision of electricity, the Bolivarian government made a decision to maintain the suspension of school activities and establish a workday until 2:00 pm in public and private institutions", Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said on state television.

Venezuelans are struggling to understand an announcement that the nation's electricity is being rationed to combat daily blackouts. Maduro, for his part, has blamed the first major blackout that sank Venezuela into darkness for days on the USA, calling it a sabotage attempt seeking to topple him from power.

Jose Aguilar, a Venezuelan consultant living in the United States, says that the problems with the power grid run deep.

Demonstrations by Venezuelans angry about the blackouts broke out Sunday in Caracas. Many took to balconies and building windows to bang pots in protest and shout curses at Maduro.

Maduro has given the "colectivos" a green light to contain protests that he describes as violent mobs aiming to oust him from power.

At the same time, frustrated residents are increasingly unable to find water, make phone calls or access the internet.

Much more spectacular were the videos shot by security cameras, dash cams and doorbell cams that quickly flooded the internet. The National Weather Service's Tallahassee forecast office tweeted images of the meteor showing up on a lightning map .

But the couple, Mary and Gabe, explained that they were on their way to the hospital for a 9 a.m. c-section appointment. "We are not part of the national political machine", Buttigieg, the two-term mayor of South Bend, said in the email.

Plusnet has committed to the scheme, but has not provided a timescale for when it will begin providing automatic compensation. Hyperoptic and Vodafone have also agreed to the guidelines and will start paying compensation automatically later this year.

The Baby singer posted a sonogram photo on Instagram , while insisting the image was not part of an April Fools Day prank. Many were quick to ask if Bieber was lying and perhaps giving them a classic April Fools.

Earlier, all RCB bowlers went for a lot of runs as Jonny Bairstow and David Warner cruised to their respective centuries. The same story has as batting and bowling units have failed to perform in tandem.

Facebook recently explored building bird-size drones loaded with data to help improve people's internet connections. A source told the site Catalina "began in late 2017 or earlier" and continued past end of Aquila in June 2018.

His 85-year-old father, Emperor Akihito , will abdicate on April 30, ending the Heisei era , translated as "achieving peace". The era , whose name includes the character for "harmony", will formally begin once the new Emperor is crowned on May 1.

We're just weeks until Season 8 of Game of Thrones kicks off on April 14, and to put it lightly, we're a little on edge . There are NO SPOILERS below, but there are Russians, lawyers, and somewhere, the truth.

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